Exploration of tongue dorsum sampling to support clinical diagnosis of leprosy patients in the Comoros: A cross-sectional study
Fig 2
Yield of positive RLEP qPCR results over different sample types.
The proportion of positive RLEP qPCR results was calculated per sample type and type of clinical diagnosis. For skin biopsies and tongue scrapes the results only represent the subset of patients for which the samples were available. The cutoff for positivity was set at a Cq-value of 40. MB: multibacillary, PB: paucibacillary.